Climbing and Rigging in Critical-Risk Ash Trees

[chris_girard]

This is my latest rigging article that was published this past summer in TCI Mag and will also be published in Arb Climber Magazine.

When EAB first hit here in the US, climbers were getting killed due to the issues that I wrote about in the article.

Feel free to ask me any questions. I already had someone who should know better try to call me out saying that the way that I'm choked off on the stem in one of my photos is unsafe and I had to answer his letter to the editor.

Climbing and Rigging Critical-Risk Ash Trees

Trees killed by emerald ash borer (EAB) can be dangerous to climb and rig. We’ll look at felling, climbing and rigging critical-risk trees.

tcimag.tcia.org

 

[gf beranek]

That was a tricky one.

Dead trees, ugh.

 

[Kaveman]

I've used the ratchet strap trick a number of times. Nice to be validated by a true industry leader. I may not have ash here, but the principles do remain the same.

 

[SeanKroll]

Good article, Chris!

 

[Sep]

Nice job! Be safe

 

[Nutball]

What was the ratchet strap for that high up? To prevent BBC?

 

[Dave Shepard]

Interesting article, thank you. Do you find that eab killed ash fail like celery, or like a carrot? I'm seeing carrot-like failures, at least in long dead examples. We do a lot of dead ash removals, and they can be sketchy, even with the cranes.

 

[gf beranek]

I thought the EAB disseminated the native eastern Ash long ago.

Must still be a few small populations around, I guess.

 

[Eric H-L]

Appreciate your hard work. It is very clear and easy to read! Similar threads are being offered to me by a TreeHouse algorithm. The two rigging articles you published in 2020 look interesting but I can’t link to them any more. Can you refresh the links? I don’t know anything about the internet. Haha.

 

[davidwyby]

I’m interested in the book…worth the $145?

 

[chris_girard]

What was the ratchet strap for that high up? To prevent BBC?

Yes, or just total failure.

 

[chris_girard]

I’m interested in the book…worth the $145?

What book is that?

 

[davidwyby]

What book is that?

Body language of trees

 

[Altissimus]

I thought the EAB disseminated the native eastern Ash long ago.

Must still be a few small populations around, I guess.

That's what I would have thought when all this started , seems a slower moving pathogen than predicted ... still plenty Ash alive here for the time being and the Mills still buy Ash Logs. Last large one we fell (residential) did have it though ...

 

[gf beranek]

Are quarantines (transport of wood) still in effect?

 

[Kaveman]

I wonder what Louisville Slugger will do, If the ash keeps dying off? What will baseball do?

 

[lxskllr]

They were experimenting with maple for awhile. This was before EAB. I vaguely remember it having some positive aspects, but it was much more likely to break.

 

[cory]

Are quarantines (transport of wood) still in effect?

"Don't move firewood" out of your area seems a widespread notion

 

[Burnham]

It definitely is here in Oregon.

 

[Treeaddict]

Are quarantines (transport of wood) still in effect?

I know that several years ago visitors to Maryland state parks (with camping) were not allowed to bring wood in. Any camp fire wood had to be purchased on site to help slow the EAB.